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suitable person to said office, whose commission shall continue in force
until the end of the next session of the Legislature, or until some other
person is appointed to the same office, whichever shall first occur; and
the nomination of the person thus appointed during the recess, or of
some other person in his place, shall be made to the Senate within
thirty days after the next meeting of the Legislature.

Sec. 12. No person, after being rejected by the Senate, shall be
again nominated for the same office at the same session, unless at the
request of the Senate; or be appointed to the same office during the
recess of the Legislature.

Sec. 13. All civil officers appointed by the Governor and Senate
shall be nominated to the Senate within fifty d'ays from the commence-
ment of each regular session of the Legislature; and their term of
office, except in cases otherwise provided for in this Constitution, shall
commence on the first Monday of May next ensuing their appointment,
and continue for two years, (unless removed from office), and until their
successors, respectively, qualify according to Law; but the term of office
of the Inspectors of Tobacco shall commence on the first Monday of
March next ensuing their appointment.

Sec. 14. If a vacancy shall occur during the session of the Senate,
in any office which the Governor and Senate have the power to fill, the
Governor shall nominate to the Senate, before its final adjournment, a
proper person to fill said vacancy, unless such vacancy occurs within
ten days before said final adjournment.

Sec. 15. The Governor may suspend or arrest any military officer
of the State for disobedience of orders or other military offence; and
may remove him in pursuance of the sentence of a Court Martial; and
may remove for incompetencj or misconduct all civil officers who
received appointment from the Executive for a term of years.

Sec. 16. The Governor shall convene the Legislature, or the Senate
alone, on extraordinary occasions; and whenever from the presence of

an enemy, or from any other cause, the Seat of Government shall
become an unsafe place for the meeting of the Legislature, he may
direct their sessions to be held at some other convenient place.

Sec. 17. To guard against hasty or partial legislation and encroach-
ments of the Legislative Department upon the co-ordinate Executive
and Judicial Departments, every Bill which shall have passed the House

of Delegates, and the Senate shall, before it becomes a law, be presented
to the Governor of the State; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not
he shall return it with his objections to the House in which it origi-
nated, which House shall enter the objections at large on its Journal
and proceed to reconsider the Bill; if, after such reconsideration, three-
fifths of the members elected to that House shall pass the Bill, it shall
be sent with the objections to the other House, by which it shall like-
wise be reconsidered, and if it pass by three-fifths of the members

elected to that House it shall become a law; but in all such cases the
votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the